What categories would you like to see at Galaxy Help?

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Category suggestions: open discussion, share your ideas!

  • Can be for top-level, nested, or both
  • Promote particular tags?
  • Beyond Q&A: dedicated spaces for discussing scientific methods; specific tools; data resources; Galaxy functionality; shared resources; news; server updates; your-favorite-galaxy-topics…
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Maybe we could have a topic for training materials, possibly with subcategory per training topic? Also would like to see one for Metagenomics (and perhaps subcategories for the big tool suites, mothur and qiime) :+1:

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The major thing to consider is categories vs tags. Tags offer you quick searching of related topics (https://help.galaxyproject.org/tags/admin) already, if you want more then categories will get you pinned topics and additional settings like hierarchy, color, security, logo, topic templates, and tag subsets.

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Really like this idea, would be an incredibly helpful resource (easy to navigate, consolidated knowledge, etc)

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I’d like a category for usegalaxy.* and tags for Main/EU/AU

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ah, gotcha :slight_smile: Then probably better to have a category for training and within that use tags for the different training topics. And similarly maybe a “tool support” category, and tags for tools/suites within there.

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I appreciate @marten’s distinction between categories and tags. I think Tags are cheap and plentiful while categories should be few and precious. Here’s a first proposal

Categories

  • Use (or Using or Usage or …)
    • Posts about how to use Galaxy
  • Admin
    • Posts about how to run a Galaxy Server
  • Training §
    • Questions about training materials and using Galaxy for Training
  • News § (or Announcements or …)
    • Almost everything that I post. :- )
  • Site Feedback
    • Already have this one. Discussions about how this help site works
  • Uncategorized
    • Really, sometimes it’s hard to know where to put things. Have this be the default.

And then I get less certain. Should we also have

  • Dev
    • Discussions about Galaxy code. It’s usually Admins doing code…
  • Tool Wrapping (or Resource Definition or … but not Tools)
    • Discussions about wrapping tools, data sources, visualizations… Will there be enough questions to justify this, or should it be heaped under Dev or Admin?

§ What about news items that are about training? I dunno!

Tags

New tags can (currently) be created by anyone who has made a few posts. However, even if tags are a free for all, we can probably come up with some best practices. Some suggestions.

  • Have a standard tag prefix (or suffix) for the different platforms for using galaxy (for example: use-pl-grid, use-galaxy-org, use-galaxy-eu, use-jetstream, use-phenomenal …)
  • I don’t think tool tags need a naming convention, and I’m ambivalent if we even need them. The text will almost always contain the name of the tool, and thus search without tags will find it.
  • I think domain tags like rna-seq, qc, and phage are useful
  • I think the combination of a Training category and a domain tag would work nicely

That’s my 23¢

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Ok, I’m already less certain about the standard tag prefix for platform tags. I’m still in favor of using tags for platforms. Using categories for platforms just creates too many categories.

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Hi All,

I’d like to get this settled and in use before our library of existing questions gets much bigger. Any thoughts on this?

I’m still a fan of the categories I nominated above. And I’m still less certain about the tags proposal.

Oh might Galaxy community: what say ye?

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tbh I think it works as is. The only extra category I can imagine is usegalaxy.org.au support, but that would be mostly empty atm. Admin tag works pretty good, and e.g. https://help.galaxyproject.org/tags/dataset-collection is also used without top->down intervention. I do not see the benefit, but then, you are the expert.

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2nd this – would round things out.

What do you think @Slugger70 ?

The reasons why I would vote for Admin and Training as top-level categories is that would allow us to “pin” topics for each. Still keep the tags --work well for finding posts across categories, in context). Both of these have distinct resources, events, alt contacts points, and news. The most “repeated/cross-linked” content so far is about resources, and specifically, resources for these two areas. I would lump Dev into Admin – but that’s just me.

In short, add a few more categories + leverage pinned posts for key communications.

I’m on the fence about News as a distinct category – maybe a tag is better (and enough for searches). The Hub already has that. Instead, pin news per category when something important is going on. But … my mind can be changed either way about this one.

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Agree with this (if understanding correctly)… with the exception of the primary usegalaxy.* servers – those as distinct categories definately helps.

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I like @tnabtaf’s categories and I think the tags will work great. I prefer Helena’s idea of one category for usegalaxy.* support with tags for Main/EU/AU. We can even add tags to these ourselves to notify people of who should look at what (for usegalaxy…)

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I’m willing to try this! :sunny:

In practical terms, about half the time the usegalaxy.* category needs to be assigned or reassigned anyway…

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I like this idea. When used with linking directly to e.g. usegalaxy.eu support - Galaxy Community Help it would create cleaner “subsites” for each group of interest.

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